Author Archives: Joseph Diaferia

Russia and Ukraine: Know and understand US objectives

Standard media reportage of recent events has become so dogmatic and simplistic, there is no longer even a vague distinction between journalism and propaganda. Dissent and attempts to contextualize such events are treated as seditious inhumanity, ignorance of history, and even foreign agency or espionage as one has experienced. Therefore, in the few short paragraphs ahead, I will attempt to “shed light”, as it were, as an observer and critic of US foreign policy, on how standard narratives and media fare of late have been grotesquely disingenuous.
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The Ukraine crisis: Operation Cyclone redux

On July 3, 1979, U.S. President Jimmy Carter signed a directive authorizing the secret funding and support for the Afghan Mujahedeen, the purpose of which was to escalate an internal war against the government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The directive, whose principal author was President Carter’s national security puppeteer Zbigniew Brzezinski, came to be known as Operation Cyclone, and its implementation resulted in Soviet intervention into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979. Continue reading